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Speaker 1 (00:10):
All right, here we go. Whoa, it's Wednesday, hump day,
halfway till Friday. It seems like just two days ago
we were saying it's Monday, and oh it was two
days ago. Lock arms together and march towards Friday together
is kind of your on air support group. Good to
have you here on the radio show. I hope you're
happy to be here. It is Wednesday, halfway till Friday. Boy,
if you're up right now, i'd get your butt out
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there and look at that beautiful full moon. That's one
of the joys and there's very few of waking up
at the time we wake up to do morning radio
and driving anywhere. It is occasionally a couple of times
a year you get this glorious full moon that is
shining bright, lighting up the roads and just as a
beautiful thing to look at. And it's out there right now.
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We're going to sink over the mountains, I'm guessing soon,
but get out there and see it. If you've been
out in about the last little bit, you've also seen
that glorious full moon and it does remind you it's
today the Lord has made and it's just love. I
love it. That's one of the again joys of occasionally
you have a joy of waking up early and doing
this show like this. So glad to be here and
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glad to see that full moon. So you got a
couple of more minutes to see it. You got a
little bit more, all Right's see Kamala. Harris is going
to be on Brett Baer today tonight. I don't know
if they're pre recording. I'm guess think it's going to
go live. I've not heard any about pre records. That's
going to go live. Donald Trump's going to be on
the Harris Faulkner Show. He's doing a women's town forum.
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That said. Last night Kamala was on Charlemagne the God.
The only experts I heard were some convoluted answer what
she got pushed on the border policy, because you know,
she was the borders are and Charlemagne kind of pushed
her on that, and she explained that it's not as
bad as you think, and we got to really change
some things. And I want to remind you anytime you
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hear in these closing days of arguments something about a
bipartisan immigration bill, you can look at that they say bipartisan.
There's one guy from Oklahoma, the gout on that the
US Senator from Oklahoma helped them write portions of it.
So they call it bipartisan. But I'll also tell you
this one. They call it by there's something you got
to read about that bill. It read it twenty million
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dollars for the twenty billion dollars I think for the border,
twenty million dollars for the border something I have sixty
million for the Ukrainians and twelve million for the Israeli Israelis.
So the bulk of what was in that bill had
nothing to do with defending our border. The bulk of
what was in that quote bipartisan bill actually was given
money to Ukraine. These politicians in Washington are so obsessed
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with Ukraine and for some reason, given money there, they
were going to give more money. Again, this isn't the
only money. This is an addition to what we were
already giving Ukraine, going to give another sixty million, but
you know the border is going to get twenty it's
what they were going to do. So it really is
just it's a little smoking mirrors, and it's you've always
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got to be careful in Washington when they say something
is called affordable health care? Is it really more affordable?
I mean, what's happened since we had the Affordable health
Care Act? Everybody every election complains of the cost of
health care is too high. Huh. I thought Congress solved
it when they had the Affordable Healthcare Act. You've got
to pass it, but it's going to make health care affordable. Well,
for twenty years now, people still covetch and moan that
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it's not affordable because evidently the Affordable health Care Act
did not make healthcare more affordable. You had the Inflation
Reduction Act, which actually didn't bring inflation down nary a bit.
Most of the Inflation Reduction Act where grants and dollars
spent over to Green New Deal initiatives and had nothing
to do with actually lowering the cost of inflation. But
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they give it a name. So when they call it
the Bipartisan Immigration Bill, what they really mean is, hey,
it's a cover story. It's a smoke and mirrors. It
gives us a way to give sixty something bazillion dollars
more to Ukraine and we'll throw a couple of peanuts
over here at the border. So let there be no mistake.
Always investigate, just because you're telling you something about again
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the debate they blocked Donald Trump blocked a bipartisan border bill.
First of all, Donald Trump's not in Congress, so Donald
Trump can't block anything. Second of all, it was blocked
because there's a lot of stuff for Ukraine in there.
And again, you want to help Ukraine, help Ukraine. Let's
have some accountability, Let's have some forethought. Let's not just
dump money like it's an open barrel that we don't
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know where it ends up at. But there has to
be some strategy as opposed to just an open checkbook.
And that was another sixty bazillion dollars towards Ukraine. So
throwing that out there for your contemplation and consideration. You know,
one of the interesting things I like to follow political strategies,
and you know, people are how do I say this,
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Not everyone is as educated on issues as people that
listen to talk radio and people that listen to news.
And I'm not talking about one sided news. I'm talking
about they can bear to hear both sides, that can
have an intellectual, honest conversation with both sides and not
get not get their panties in or draw if someone
disagrees with them, and I think most of the people
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in the audience feel that way. I can. I don't mind.
You got a different opinion, have a different opinion. It's
all right. This world ain't my home, So I'm all right,
you have a different opinion all you want. But it's
but I think so some people are not as educated,
and so some people are not really I guess, top
of mind of watching what's happening. So they hear something
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from a politician, or they hear something from a television ad,
and they go, oh, that's got to be true. Is
on television, it's got to be true. Is on the internet.
It's got to be true because Donald Trump said, it's
got to be true, because Kamala Harris said, it's got
to be absolutely true. And a lot of times it's
not a lot of times it's nuance to be true
if you look at it this way, but not true
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if you look at it that way. Well, Kamala came
out yesterday. Kamala came out yesterday and she said that
Donald Trump's not doing interviews. He's hiding because he's mentally unstable.
He's not accessible. No one knows where he's at, and
you know, of all the things that you know, I
think people are ignorant on news and information and issues.
I don't think there's anybody out there that thinks Donald
Trump is hiding from anybody. If anything, there's a hell
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of a lot of people that like him or don't
like him, to say, Hey, a little less Donald here,
a little less Donald. But that was one of those disingenuous,
idiotic things that has probably ever come out of Kamala's mouth.
And there's a lot of stupid, idiotic things that come
out of that woman's mouth. I mean, when you think
that could be one of the dumbest things that ever
gave her to say her people, she should have gone
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in after she read that from her teleprompter and fired
whoever said that that was going to be a line
of attack on Donald J. Trump. Now, there were some
minions out there that applauded the line at this rally
or this event she was at, Oh, that's so brilliant, Kamala,
that's so brilliant. Can I drink the kool aid and
commit suicide on your behalf? Because it's a cult. She's
an empty suit, and I know she's an empty suit.
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People fall in line because oh, she's got the blue
uniform on, so we must fall in line and we
must say all hail, all hell Kamala because she's wearing
the blue suit. That's got to be the stupidest line
that she ever came up with. That Donald Trump's not
being out there. I think he's holding town halls. I
think he's done interviews. I know he did. He I mean,
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he's good lord. He's on everybody show except mine, I think,
I mean he's been out there for everybody. So it's
that was dumb. And if you heard that, and even
if you don't follow news, you probably know that Kamala
is full of nonsense and full of She's a sack
of juweah as well a sack of something, because that
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was absolutely silly. It's National Boss's Day. Anybody got a
good boss? You like your boss? I don't know if
you like your boss or I hope we all like
our bosses. Right at least on the radio, we say
we like our bosses. We tell everybody we like our bosses. Well,
I want to be the first one to wish you.
And I don't know how you're going to celebrate this.
Maybe pick up a box of donuts. Maybe you pick
up them, I don't know, a box of twinkies, maybe
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buy him a cup of her, him her a cup
of coffee. But it is National Boss's Day, and so
I would want to commend you and let you know
to give yourself a little extra time to get to work,
and let me be the first person to wish you
happy National Boss's Day. And would you take this moment
to think of how you're going to honor your boss
on National Boss's Day? Think about it now? Would you
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think about it? National boss Day? Look at the It's
National Bosses Day and.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You're the coolest boss. So love with my boss, brown nosers.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
We all always hard to be a boss, right, not today?
Happy National Bosses Day. Enough gibber job, Let's go back
to work. You got it? Boss?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Now?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Seriously, that's ready said. Now it's showtime. It's National Boss's Day.
How are you going to celebrate National Boss's Day? Is
this a day that you go out of your way
to brown nose? Is it too obvious? It's not obvious
if your boss doesn't know it's National Boss's Day, or
maybe you tell them, hey, it's National Boss's Day. And
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I wanted to pause and reflect it as I stared
at that big, beautiful full moon out there and thought
about the greatness of the creator and the greatness of
my boss. I don't know how you're gonna do it,
but a good luck brown nosing the boss today. It's
a good day to put your lips firmly ensconced on
their asses and see if it gets your promotion or
a pay raise. If you're in radio, it will not,
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but anyway other industries it might still work. I don't know.
Happy National Boss's Day out there. I mean that it's
a big day. It's probably a national holiday. Matter of fact,
a lot of you should take it off so you
don't have to see your boss today, just to honor
the boss and say I didn't want you to have
to put up with me today. So I'm not going
to show up at work today because if you see me, boss,
they're going to have your blood pressure raised and wonder
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why I still work for you. So I got to
stay home today. Happy National Boss's Day everybody. And if
you're the boss, Happy National Boss's Day. You want to
tell bad boss stories, I can't. I gotta be careful here.
We had a boss that was around here not like
my meeting boss. But I hire a boss at uh.
That was a bizarre thing. Yeah, let's just say that
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when well, let me say it was at a different location.
Can I say that, let me change the story. It
was a different location, a different place and a different time.
And when the person was shown the door out the door,
they were you know, the levels above me. But they
still made everybody's life hell when they they emptied out
the drawers in the cabinets and it was filled with hooch.
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That's all I can say. That was of course at
a different establishment than this, that was not here, and
that was that was That was an interesting time. But
that happy National Boss's Day. That person I would never
wish happy bosses day. We did wish that person good riddance.
I don't know what they're doing now, but probably yeah,
never mind, all right, it's a National Boss's Day. Best
boss you ever had? Somebody texted me, who's the best
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boss you ever had? Well, it depends on the job
of the industry. And I'm in such a weird world
of radio and medium that bosses for me are kind
of different. I do a lot of very independent and
I can't tell you the worst boss ever had, and
he was dispatched to the sideline and I was told
not to talk to him anymore. Eventually, so and I didn't.
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I talked to someone else who wasn't my boss, and
they made it my boss. So that's a whole different story.
But worst boss you've ever had, I can tell you
that story. Uh it's I gotta be careful though all
the stuff I say, you know so, but the worst
the best boss I ever had. I had a boss
one time that had two bosses, one boss and the
boss over that person. They ran off to each other
and like disappeared from the radio station for weeks and
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nobody to where they're at. We knew where they're at.
They hit e loped ran off. Problem is they we're
both married. And that was a big drama. That was
So that was I don't say the worst boss. They
were all right, but it was a strange situation, folk show,
very strange. Finally corporate started to call, it's not this,
not of this company, different company. Corporate starts calling, canay
anybody's seen the bosses around there? No, we've not seen
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the thing. We know nothing, We know nothing. Yeah, we
knew something, but we weren't telling we were going to
keep a secret. It's radio a lot of good secrets here,
all right, What else do I have about for today?
I told you where Kamala is going to be at,
and I told you where where Donald's going to be at.
So the less than three weeks from the campaign. Oh,
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I filled out my ballot last night. I got home
from a long day. I was doing some fundraising for
my charity work, and I filled up my ballot. And
I'll give you the next segment. I'll kind of go
over how I filled it out. I did it differently
than I thought I would. I looked at all the
voters guides, and I talked about so many things, and
I and the candidates I voted for who I thought
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I was going to vote for. Voted for Donald J.
And I'm in the eighth so I voted for Gabe Evans,
I voted for Dan Woog. I'm in that state Sentate district,
Barb Kirkmeyer. I mean, I voted for the people I've expected.
But when I got to the propositions and amendments, I
really just kind of had a kind of a say,
a revelation, if you will, kind of an aha, moment,
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and I changed how I was going to vote. And
it wasn't that my values didn't change, as Kamala would say.
I just kind of went my perspective and said, no,
I'm going to have to mark no on this, even
though I originally was going to say, Okay, let me
give you that thought process in the next segment, because
you're going to fill your ballot out. I filled it out,
and then I immediately I got back in the car.
I'd gotten home. I didn't even walk the dog. I mean,
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I just filled out the ballot because I knew it
was going to take a bit, and it wasn't as
long as I thought, but I had I didn't have.
I knew what the admittments were, so I kind of
knew where I was going. If you haven't pre studied,
it's going to be a long ballot to read through
in all the fine print. And by the way, it's
very small. I don't know if it's well. If there's
so many things on the ballot, I couldn't read the thing,
I'm like, okay, I need either readers glasses or we
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need to print this thing bigger. They need that. They
remember the giant print Bibles you can get. I needed
a giant print ballot. We need to be able to
request that one. It was small, but I filled it
out last night and then I didn't even walk the dog.
I said out the door, went to the dropbox, dropped
it off. So I should be getting a text message
front of the next twenty four to forty hours that
my ballot has been tracked and I am there. I'll
go through my ballot thought process in the next segment.
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I'm not arrogant enough to think I need to give
you everything I voted. I just got to tell you
how I thought it through, and then you think it through.
You're all capable individuals. You want to know specifically how
I voted on what, I'll tell you, but I'm not
going to. I just kind of tell you what was
running through my brain. And it was just kind of
a different idea that I hit yesterday afternoon that some
of the things I was going to vote yes on,
I'm not going to vote yes on, not because I
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don't think they're good ideas. I just I'll get to
that process here in just a moment. Also, one more
quick thing. The next couple of days a week or so,
on occasion, I'm going to mention and I just warn
you here, I'm going to mention my charity work. And
I know some of you know my charity work. And
you guys have always been so supportive the golf tournament,
everything we do. You've helped us stock. I think this
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audience has put a couple of classrooms of chairs together,
or desk and chairs just by a donation during the show.
You've helped us overcome our feeding when the inflation price
went up, cost of food doubled, you helped us provide
a couple of months of food for kids. And so
you're always so generous. And yesterday I sent out an
email and it was an email detailing our Christmas drive.
And Christmas is that great opportunity to where you know,
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we teach the kids the Bible. We are it's a
legacy Christian academy. The kids pray, they know that. But
Christmas is a great opportunity to kind of just celebrate
and you celebrate the of course, in the Christian tradition
we celebrate the birth of Jesus and so, but it's
a holiday. We're not afraid of the Santa Claus and
all that. The kids like the wear Santa Claus has
they understand all that, But we teach them and then
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we teach them by gifts, and we teach them about
the greatest gift that ever came, the Gift of salvations.
It was the incarnation all started and started the gift
of salvation. And I mean we try to teach them
that this is a great way to illustrate it. And
then we try to give practical gifts. Now we're not
giving out toys or yo yo's and things like that.
I mean, I guess we could find a yoyo, they
might enjoy it. But we do practical things. Every year
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at Christmas time, we throw a big party catered food,
I mean big food, and it's a feast. And that
party costs about fifteen bucks a kid. Honestly, we bring
SODA's in. I mean, we really throw a hoop off
for a couple of hundred kids. It's great. And then
we give every child a new pair of shoes, because
shoes are a commodity there. They don't have shoes, and
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we've got kids, I've had kids we found that start
our school. We think they have shoes, and we look
at the bottom, the bottom of their shoes are totally
worn out. They're barefoot on the ground, but they sow
treasure that they used to have shoes. They're still wearing
the top of the shoe. That is. That is Joe
Biden said, no joke. We had a kid that he
had a pair of crocs on. I don't know where
he got a pair of crocks, probably threw a humanitarian
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drop somewhere, had a pair of crocs. We're like, oh,
that's great, he's got crocs. We don't know. And then
we looked at the the bottom of the crocks were
totally gone, but he had the top on. So we
buy the kids new shoes because they wear them out.
They you know, they they wear these dang shoes out
because that's the only pair of shoes they have. If
they have shoes, it is the pair of shoes we
give them. And a pair of shoes cost us thirty bucks,
and we're gonna buy for about two hundred and fifty
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kids at least a pair of shoes. Do the math there.
And then there's some other things I put out there
last night that we're going to be once we get
the shoes done. That's our top priority. There's some other
things we're going to try to provide for the Christmas season.
And again, these are some of the poorest kids in
Africa and these have been neglected for years. These kids
lived with families, lived under literally they lived under piles
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of banana leaves until we got out there. I mean,
it was pretty crazy for what we saw there. And
it's come a long ways, baby, and we're making progress.
And one of the things that is on our list,
and every day, every couple of days, I'm going to
mention an item and say, hey, can we stock this
item today. It's just a cash donation. I'll give you
an instance. Eighty dollars something we don't think about for Christmas,
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but for them it's very special. We have young women
that we send a school over there, middle school, high school,
young women, college aids. We're sending a girl in nursing
school right now through the generosity of a sponsorship feminine
hygiene products that's a luxury and eighty dollars. Never thought
i'd be the visitor onnew Eighty dollars is a year supply,
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if you will, of products for a young lady to
have so that when that time comes every month she
has what she needs to continue life as normal, and
that's eighty bucks. And once we buy the shoes, we
start looking to the other needs and it could be that.
So anyway, this morning, I want to focus on the
shoes this hour. If you'd like to help a kid
have a pair of shoes for Christmas, you go want
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to highlight something else, just put for Christmas. Go to
riverspromise dot org. Thirty dollars buys a pair of shoes
for a kid. If for some reason something else I mentioned,
just say for this product and I'll make sure we
do that. But I want to focus on shoes thirty dollars.
Some of you could do one hundred pair of shoes.
You can do three thousand bucks right now. Some of
you could do ten at three hundred bucks, some of
you could do one, and some of you can't do anything.
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But maybe you can say a little word of prayer.
That would be good too. All right, riverspromise dot Org.
I'm going to do this over the next couple of days.
It's a Christmas project. We're not buying toys. These kids
don't know what a toy is. They're happy if I
give them a sheet of stickers, but a pair of
shoes is an amazing thing and that's the base line
every year at our Christmas parties. So thirty bucks, if
you'd like to help us in the show, I'm going
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to mention it throughout the of the morning. Thank you
for understanding. It's a passion in my heart, and I
hope you'll help you riverspromise dot com, Rivers promise dot
or just the greatest need. And then you'll have a
place to put a comment. And if it comes in
near the show, I know it's Christmas, but you can
end the comments put for Christmas gift or four shoes.
We'll figure it out. Thirty bucks starts with a pair
of shoes. If you got the email from me yesterday,
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you know the other items that are on there. I'll
mention some in the next several days and weeks, but
thirty dollars for a pair of shoes, that's what I'm
going to focus on this morning. Would you help us?
I appreciate you, and I think the Lord does too.
I'll be back. Laky six hundred and ca col All right,
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you can listen to me anywhere. A matter of fact,
people do. It's amazing hear from people really all over
the globe. You're listening on that iHeartRadio app. And so
I got people the vacation. They're overseas or stationed overseas,
and they're tired of well they need their Jimmy fix,
and so they listened to me. And I appreciate you
for doing that. Good to have you here for your
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streaming me live this morning. Good morning from Colorado. If
you're not live and you're listening on the podcast I
call the Leaky Effect, welcome back into the show and
hello from the past. It's the sixteenth day of October,
Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty four. All right, I
don't live in Larrimer County, but I do sometimes well,
I oftentimes follow news in Larimer County. One of the
things that's always kerfuffled me is, first of all, as
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huge as Larimer County, as there's only three commissioners. There's
three districts and three commissioners, which to me seems really
small for such a big district. And unfortunately you get
some boneheads or jackwagons, or as Tim Walls called them,
knuckleheads that ended up serving on the board of commissioners.
And yesterday, I want you to go back to my podcast.
Listen to an interview that I had with with a
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local business owner and you will find it at Jimmy
Lakey dot com. Tiffany Webber was on the program and
Tiffany Weber talked about an interaction she had with the
Border Commissioners because of her winery and a balloon that
was up for twelve minutes and the Border Commissioners basically
shut her down for six months out of business. Twenty
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six people laid off out of business. Jody Shaddick McNally
from District three on the Border Commissioners actually said we
ought to go into the I want to go into
the back co and tear up your vineyards. I mean,
this is uh, this is a tyrannical type board of
commissioners with that kind of attitude, all because of a balloon.
They said, you're you're not supposed to have balloons and
supposed to have a private party. Well, I didn't put
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the balloon up. So somebody came in with had a
big seating and they put up the balloon to say hey,
we're in here. But nevertheless, uh, the Lahoman County Bord
Commissioner shut him down. Jody Shatick McNally running for reelection
on your ballot in Larimer County. Wants to be seated
back on that border commissioners. I want to welcome into
the program. Been asked. He's a he's a candidate in
District three and he's taking on Jody Shaddick McNally for
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the Larimer County boarder commissions.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Ben walking to the show, sir, how are you?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Thank you? Jimmy doing well? My name is Ben Oustey.
Will just say, stay with Osty. It's difficult Swiss name
to pronounce around here.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Astey. I apologize for that. Been that up. I know
your signs. I've seen those around and it's Uncle Benny, says,
give us the background of Uncle Benny. Your background at
the end of the Larimer County area.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That's a nickname I was given in college, Uncle Benny.
And so we opened a business called Uncle Benny's Building Supply.
It was quaint. People loved it, grassroots, they embraced it.
I ran in twenty twenty Jimmy with as Ben Ostey.
People said, who in the heck is this? Asked this
Ben Astay or Ostey couldn't pronounce, And then later we
found we should have run with Uncle Benny on the ballot,
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and that is what we did this time around.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So Uncle Benny is what people see. I'm not a
Larimer County guy, so Uncle I'm a Weld County guy.
So it actually says Uncle Benny, so they know whats you.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
That is correct. We have name branding big time here
in the county. I got nearly one hundred thousand votes.
In fact, they still have that garnered record there for
any elected official Lumber County back in twenty twenty. Not
bad for Riddeneck businessman.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Ben Austy, my guest, he's running for Larimer County commissioners
and Commissioner's seat in District three. I'm sure you're familiar
with the story that I've told you about Jody Shaddick
McNally and the winery in for College that got shut down.
Give me your thoughts on that story. It was a
crazy story. I want people to go listen to Tiffany's
story yesterday on my website Jimmy Linky dot com my
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interview with her. Give me your thoughts on six months
because of a balloon. Doesn't seem like they're very business friendly,
local business friendly when it comes to the current border
commissioners and District three.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
One of many stories. Jimmy, I can't even I don't
have enough fingers and toasts tell you how many. This
is one I started to hear about, actually from Tiffany
four years ago, when I was just running actually in
twenty twenty for your Lenmo County Commissioner three. So I'm
very familiar with it. And that is, as I say,
she's brave. There's so many other business owners that do
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not want to. They feel there could be retaliation, and
they have experience retaliation for speaking up and telling their stories.
Backlash if you will. Again, because I'm out here in
the business sector, people feel comfortable telling me these stories
two years, one month. I try to listen, and seriously,
it's grievous. The hardest thing, probably for me, has been
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for the last four years, since twenty twenty. For three years,
people said, are you going to run again? Was a question.
Then the last year it became you've got to run again,
it was a demand. So you can tell the seriousness
that's surfacing from the people's voices here in the county.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Can you help me understand what's going on with the
current representative from District three? I mean, it seems like
the Laermer County Boarder commissioners will want to be pro business,
have an environment to where businesses are surviving, especially when
places like wineries and restaurants really struggled because of lockdowns
during COVID, many went out of business. It seems like
they would be kind of partnering with them. What's the deal?
(25:38):
Why the evidently victory all towards some businesses and you're
hearing more stories than just Tiffany Webers.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Yeah, it's what once was six months to a year
on pulling getting a permit approved, whether it be residential
or commercial. It's become two and three year testimonies for
many many I mean up to date real time. I
still hear this. I mean some one of them took
the cake the other day. It was four to five years.
They've been working on it in Larimer County. Now it's
(26:06):
a bigger development, so they're more complicated to design infrastructure.
But understanding that, you see it becoming more difficult. I
don't know what to end to what end this is, Jimmy, honestly,
because we the brick and mortar montop businesses are the
backbone of this county. In any county, any municipality, to
drive them off and to hear testimonies of people go
into Borlder County, honest to God is my witness, and
(26:27):
other counties around us for years has been very alarming.
That even started three years ago.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Jimmy Wow, the voice of Ben Ousta. He's running in
District three, Uncle Benny as you might know him, for
Larimer County Border Commissioners. Can you help me understand why
Larimer County other county commissioner's board seem to be much larger.
This is only three people. Should that change? I think
in my estimation it should, because you get one or
two people that are tyrannical, like maybe you have here,
(26:54):
and suddenly the whole county shut down and all the
citizens pay the price because there's not really enough people
to build some kind of a large consensus. Is it
too small?
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I don't know that that's the way to go. I
have been talking with one of my mentors, who happens
to be Daryl Clawson, who was a commissioner for Larmer
County years ago, ninety two years old. A man of wisdom.
He's just one of several that are awesome commissioners that
were reasonable, affordable and sustainable through the years. I mean
he actually made a ruin for me twenty eight years ago,
(27:26):
changed an ordinance if you can imagine, so it can
be done, and softened some codes that were unreasonable even then.
So he said, and this is one of his estimations
is he served as a commissioner and on a board
for a city municipality, and he said, the more people
you have involved on a decision making, the more difficult
it can become. Now that's one opinion. There's a lot
(27:47):
of folks that like to be like, we have two
hundred I'm estimating two hundred and eighty thousand Larimer County
now on our census because the last was two fifty
nine and twenty twenty. So we have to wait obviously
obviously till two thirty to make it afenc but indicators
are saying we must have about two hundred and eighty thousand.
So I think that at the moment it's going to
cost more money. Right now, our budget I don't think
(28:09):
would allow another off several offices because people are proposing
three and two three center three that are the full
time commissioners and two at large. So the budget has
to be looked at. I mean, I'm not saying no
to that idea, but I am really looking into it.
It's come around for several cycles going through the years.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, well, well, well all we do know, whether you
know that's a kind of a big term, long term picture.
Is that just the audio that I've seen at the
County Commissioner Board of Jody Shaddick just talking such trash
to a local business owner and literally wanting to her opinion,
she got blocked by other people on the commission She
wanted to knock them out of business and just say
you can't do business anymore, you're done, revoke their license altogether.
(28:51):
I mean, that's tyrannical type stuff. And you just wonder
how an elected official feels that they have that much authority,
that much power, that much gravitas, that much ego. There's
just something that in my opinion, not yours. I'm sure
maybe it is, but in my opinion, there's just something
wrong with that type of an elected official continue to
go back when they really are not looking for a solution.
(29:12):
They want to drive a person out of business. That's
why you're running ben Ostay. If somebody wants to learn
more about your campaign in District three for the Larrama
County Boarder commissioners. Where do they go?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I'd love it if they'd go to vote the number
four ASTE dot com. Stay with Oste. Remember, stay with Oste.
And from the people's mounds to my ears to this
radio station, we have got to become more reasonable, sustainable
and affordable or we're not gonna make it. We need
this income from these businesses, not driving them out. And
(29:44):
I have to tell you, Jimmy, lastly, many Democrat business
owners have been telling you, I don't care what party
this guy's from. I want some more common sense. All
the accolades that I have, we don't have time to
list out for this job. I can do it, no problem.
I'm looking forward to it. Are two words I want
and sense in this bocc ye.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
All right, one more time, give that website real quick,
real quick.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
It is vote the number four A S T E
dot com. We need for health. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Vote for the number four A s T E dot com.
That's osty, but it's spelled ASTI. If you get my drift,
there a s t E pronounced osty. Uncle Benny, appreciate
you coming on, Ben, and good luck to you. Thank
I'll talk to you soon, I hope. And ladies and gentlemen,
I gotta take a break. It's lady on the radio,
six hundred kc.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
O L.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
All right, welcome back to the program. Lakey is my name,
Jimmy Lakey. To be precise, let me play this audio.
There's a video I did the interview with Tiffany Weber yesterday.
I want you to go back and listen to it.
My friends, if you're in Laramer County, this is why
to these interviews. I want you to not ignore what's
down below on the ballot. Jody Shattock, I mean, I
don't know anything about her, but I've just watched this
(31:28):
video and hear this story. This woman's a a beast
of some sorts. Just something's wrong that you'd go after
a business for a balloon. Tiffany tells her story, and
I'll post this video up as well, and you do
your own research. But Ben oste great. He's heard so
many complaints, he said, of other business owners, even cross
party lines, going this is out of control with a
(31:50):
lack of common sense here in Jody Shatto's part of
that on the Laramer County Board Commissioners. Let me play
this audio. This is just a snippet of a piece
of her talking about this woman a balloon at the
Blending's winery. And so Jody Shattock is so angry about
that damn balloon. The damn balloon, Jody, it's pissing you off,
isn't it. The damn balloon nicks her off? And so
(32:11):
she wants to shut the business down forever. Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Still, two three months wouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Two to three months would not be support.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
That sort of suspension. I'm actually was thinking about revocation.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I was thinking about revocation. Jody Shaddick McNally on the
Larmer County Border Commissioners. Here's the story. They provided ring
doorbell footage and say, hey, that that balloon was not
put up by us, put up by people saying, hey,
we have the graduation event in here, party in here,
but it's open to the public. Here's our receipts. We
weren't shut down for a private and we're not allowed
to do that. And Jody Shattuck Mwmalley says two to
(32:43):
three months is too short. Two to three months is
too short. She's the woman at the grocery store saying
you're not following the damn arrows. This is the person
at the grocery store. Six feet of a separation, please,
six feet of separation. I don't know much about this
Jody's Shaddock, but just that clip right there is enough
for me to say, Uh, if you live in Larimer
County and you get devoted the District three border commissioners,
(33:05):
I would highly suggest you look a different direction. I mean,
let me put up this of this YouTube video. It's
very well done. Somebody sent it to me and I
want you to see it. And again I had to
pronounce his name, ben Ousti. I didn't know how to
pronounce his name. I ain't got no dog in the fight. Uh.
But again, you got to got to go to Larimber County,
(33:26):
take back your government and get some common sense. So,
by the way, your Larimer County border commissioners was wrong,
very wrong when it came to the COVID handling, and
they should still be held accountable for that. So anyway,
you've got a Yeah, Cafalis is about the most reasonable
I've ever seen. O there, he's been on the program before,
he's he's usually accessible. I've always appreciated John Cafalis, but
again as a whole. Uh, these three people, especially this Shattuck,
(33:49):
well shotuck, that's scary stuff. Let me, I'll put this
video up and go listen to the interview Tiffany Webber,
and I'll get the Ben Ousti interview. And again I
don't I don't know Ben Austin from we could have
eaten at the Applebees yesterday, I won't even know it.
I'm not personal friends at all, but I do pay
attention to who you have to representing you, and it's
some scary stuff out there there in District three of
(34:09):
the Lamber County Boarder commissioners. I want to remind you
I mentioned this last hour. Excuse me. I'm going to
mention this every once in a while. The next couple
of days, I'm going to be highlighting an item that
we're trying to bride for Christmas to my charity organization,
and shoes are the main thing that we provide all
the kids, So hundreds of pairs of shoes, a couple
of hundred at least, we could do more if we
get more shoes or thirty dollars a piece to buy
kid of pair of shoes and again these are kids
(34:30):
would not have shoes otherwise. When I first went to
this area where we're building Legacy Christian Academy in Rwanda,
there were kids with no shoes. Hell, there were kids
with no clothes. We literally had nickedness going on. I
mean we had kids in rags and leaves. It was
very primitive. And I'll put up some before and after photos.
But the shoes are a big deal. And the kids
love shoes so much, and if they wear their shoes out,
(34:51):
they won't throw them out. They'll still wear the top
of their shoes even though their foot's hanging out through
the bottom because they just want to have shoes. And
every year we buy everybody pairs of shoes as many
as we can. They're thirty bucks. And for the next
couple of days, I'm going to push stuff, just different
items that we're going to provide. Shoes are the backbone
of our Christmas drive. It's thirty bucks and I just
(35:11):
looked at so far. I just threw it out there
one time and I don't see anything in the inbox.
I'd like to though, somebody you could do a one
thousand bucks, so somebody could do one hundred pair of
shoes today, somebody could do one. I don't know where
you're out on the spectrum, but go to riverspromise dot org.
It's Christmas drive for the kids and just the greatest need.
(35:32):
And then put Christmas shoes on there. Well know what
it's for. Riverspromise dot com, riverspromise dot org. All right,
everybody stand by Steve laugh you we've been next. Now
we're six hundred kcol
All right, here we go. Whoa, it's Wednesday, hump day,
halfway till Friday. It seems like just two days ago
we were saying it's Monday, and oh it was two
days ago. Lock arms together and march towards Friday together
is kind of your on air support group. Good to
have you here on the radio show. I hope you're
happy to be here. It is Wednesday, halfway till Friday. Boy,
if you're up right now, i'd get your butt out
(00:31):
there and look at that beautiful full moon. That's one
of the joys and there's very few of waking up
at the time we wake up to do morning radio
and driving anywhere. It is occasionally a couple of times
a year you get this glorious full moon that is
shining bright, lighting up the roads and just as a
beautiful thing to look at. And it's out there right now.
(00:53):
We're going to sink over the mountains, I'm guessing soon,
but get out there and see it. If you've been
out in about the last little bit, you've also seen
that glorious full moon and it does remind you it's
today the Lord has made and it's just love. I
love it. That's one of the again joys of occasionally
you have a joy of waking up early and doing
this show like this. So glad to be here and
(01:14):
glad to see that full moon. So you got a
couple of more minutes to see it. You got a
little bit more, all Right's see Kamala. Harris is going
to be on Brett Baer today tonight. I don't know
if they're pre recording. I'm guess think it's going to
go live. I've not heard any about pre records. That's
going to go live. Donald Trump's going to be on
the Harris Faulkner Show. He's doing a women's town forum.
(01:36):
That said. Last night Kamala was on Charlemagne the God.
The only experts I heard were some convoluted answer what
she got pushed on the border policy, because you know,
she was the borders are and Charlemagne kind of pushed
her on that, and she explained that it's not as
bad as you think, and we got to really change
some things. And I want to remind you anytime you
(01:56):
hear in these closing days of arguments something about a
bipartisan immigration bill, you can look at that they say bipartisan.
There's one guy from Oklahoma, the gout on that the
US Senator from Oklahoma helped them write portions of it.
So they call it bipartisan. But I'll also tell you
this one. They call it by there's something you got
to read about that bill. It read it twenty million
(02:18):
dollars for the twenty billion dollars I think for the border,
twenty million dollars for the border something I have sixty
million for the Ukrainians and twelve million for the Israeli Israelis.
So the bulk of what was in that bill had
nothing to do with defending our border. The bulk of
what was in that quote bipartisan bill actually was given
money to Ukraine. These politicians in Washington are so obsessed
(02:41):
with Ukraine and for some reason, given money there, they
were going to give more money. Again, this isn't the
only money. This is an addition to what we were
already giving Ukraine, going to give another sixty million, but
you know the border is going to get twenty it's
what they were going to do. So it really is
just it's a little smoking mirrors, and it's you've always
(03:01):
got to be careful in Washington when they say something
is called affordable health care? Is it really more affordable?
I mean, what's happened since we had the Affordable health
Care Act? Everybody every election complains of the cost of
health care is too high. Huh. I thought Congress solved
it when they had the Affordable Healthcare Act. You've got
to pass it, but it's going to make health care affordable. Well,
for twenty years now, people still covetch and moan that
(03:24):
it's not affordable because evidently the Affordable health Care Act
did not make healthcare more affordable. You had the Inflation
Reduction Act, which actually didn't bring inflation down nary a bit.
Most of the Inflation Reduction Act where grants and dollars
spent over to Green New Deal initiatives and had nothing
to do with actually lowering the cost of inflation. But
(03:45):
they give it a name. So when they call it
the Bipartisan Immigration Bill, what they really mean is, hey,
it's a cover story. It's a smoke and mirrors. It
gives us a way to give sixty something bazillion dollars
more to Ukraine and we'll throw a couple of peanuts
over here at the border. So let there be no mistake.
Always investigate, just because you're telling you something about again
(04:07):
the debate they blocked Donald Trump blocked a bipartisan border bill.
First of all, Donald Trump's not in Congress, so Donald
Trump can't block anything. Second of all, it was blocked
because there's a lot of stuff for Ukraine in there.
And again, you want to help Ukraine, help Ukraine. Let's
have some accountability, Let's have some forethought. Let's not just
dump money like it's an open barrel that we don't
(04:29):
know where it ends up at. But there has to
be some strategy as opposed to just an open checkbook.
And that was another sixty bazillion dollars towards Ukraine. So
throwing that out there for your contemplation and consideration. You know,
one of the interesting things I like to follow political strategies,
and you know, people are how do I say this,
(04:49):
Not everyone is as educated on issues as people that
listen to talk radio and people that listen to news.
And I'm not talking about one sided news. I'm talking
about they can bear to hear both sides, that can
have an intellectual, honest conversation with both sides and not
get not get their panties in or draw if someone
disagrees with them, and I think most of the people
(05:11):
in the audience feel that way. I can. I don't mind.
You got a different opinion, have a different opinion. It's
all right. This world ain't my home, So I'm all right,
you have a different opinion all you want. But it's
but I think so some people are not as educated,
and so some people are not really I guess, top
of mind of watching what's happening. So they hear something
(05:33):
from a politician, or they hear something from a television ad,
and they go, oh, that's got to be true. Is
on television, it's got to be true. Is on the internet.
It's got to be true because Donald Trump said, it's
got to be true, because Kamala Harris said, it's got
to be absolutely true. And a lot of times it's
not a lot of times it's nuance to be true
if you look at it this way, but not true
(05:54):
if you look at it that way. Well, Kamala came
out yesterday. Kamala came out yesterday and she said that
Donald Trump's not doing interviews. He's hiding because he's mentally unstable.
He's not accessible. No one knows where he's at, and
you know, of all the things that you know, I
think people are ignorant on news and information and issues.
I don't think there's anybody out there that thinks Donald
Trump is hiding from anybody. If anything, there's a hell
(06:16):
of a lot of people that like him or don't
like him, to say, Hey, a little less Donald here,
a little less Donald. But that was one of those disingenuous,
idiotic things that has probably ever come out of Kamala's mouth.
And there's a lot of stupid, idiotic things that come
out of that woman's mouth. I mean, when you think
that could be one of the dumbest things that ever
gave her to say her people, she should have gone
(06:37):
in after she read that from her teleprompter and fired
whoever said that that was going to be a line
of attack on Donald J. Trump. Now, there were some
minions out there that applauded the line at this rally
or this event she was at, Oh, that's so brilliant, Kamala,
that's so brilliant. Can I drink the kool aid and
commit suicide on your behalf? Because it's a cult. She's
an empty suit, and I know she's an empty suit.
(07:00):
People fall in line because oh, she's got the blue
uniform on, so we must fall in line and we
must say all hail, all hell Kamala because she's wearing
the blue suit. That's got to be the stupidest line
that she ever came up with. That Donald Trump's not
being out there. I think he's holding town halls. I
think he's done interviews. I know he did. He I mean,
(07:20):
he's good lord. He's on everybody show except mine, I think,
I mean he's been out there for everybody. So it's
that was dumb. And if you heard that, and even
if you don't follow news, you probably know that Kamala
is full of nonsense and full of She's a sack
of juweah as well a sack of something, because that
(07:40):
was absolutely silly. It's National Boss's Day. Anybody got a
good boss? You like your boss? I don't know if
you like your boss or I hope we all like
our bosses. Right at least on the radio, we say
we like our bosses. We tell everybody we like our bosses. Well,
I want to be the first one to wish you.
And I don't know how you're going to celebrate this.
Maybe pick up a box of donuts. Maybe you pick
up them, I don't know, a box of twinkies, maybe
(08:02):
buy him a cup of her, him her a cup
of coffee. But it is National Boss's Day, and so
I would want to commend you and let you know
to give yourself a little extra time to get to work,
and let me be the first person to wish you
happy National Boss's Day. And would you take this moment
to think of how you're going to honor your boss
on National Boss's Day? Think about it now? Would you
(08:25):
think about it? National boss Day? Look at the It's
National Bosses Day and.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You're the coolest boss. So love with my boss, brown nosers.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
We all always hard to be a boss, right, not today?
Happy National Bosses Day. Enough gibber job, Let's go back
to work. You got it? Boss?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Now?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Seriously, that's ready said. Now it's showtime. It's National Boss's Day.
How are you going to celebrate National Boss's Day? Is
this a day that you go out of your way
to brown nose? Is it too obvious? It's not obvious
if your boss doesn't know it's National Boss's Day, or
maybe you tell them, hey, it's National Boss's Day. And
(09:01):
I wanted to pause and reflect it as I stared
at that big, beautiful full moon out there and thought
about the greatness of the creator and the greatness of
my boss. I don't know how you're gonna do it,
but a good luck brown nosing the boss today. It's
a good day to put your lips firmly ensconced on
their asses and see if it gets your promotion or
a pay raise. If you're in radio, it will not,
(09:22):
but anyway other industries it might still work. I don't know.
Happy National Boss's Day out there. I mean that it's
a big day. It's probably a national holiday. Matter of fact,
a lot of you should take it off so you
don't have to see your boss today, just to honor
the boss and say I didn't want you to have
to put up with me today. So I'm not going
to show up at work today because if you see me, boss,
they're going to have your blood pressure raised and wonder
(09:43):
why I still work for you. So I got to
stay home today. Happy National Boss's Day everybody. And if
you're the boss, Happy National Boss's Day. You want to
tell bad boss stories, I can't. I gotta be careful here.
We had a boss that was around here not like
my meeting boss. But I hire a boss at uh.
That was a bizarre thing. Yeah, let's just say that
(10:07):
when well, let me say it was at a different location.
Can I say that, let me change the story. It
was a different location, a different place and a different time.
And when the person was shown the door out the door,
they were you know, the levels above me. But they
still made everybody's life hell when they they emptied out
the drawers in the cabinets and it was filled with hooch.
(10:27):
That's all I can say. That was of course at
a different establishment than this, that was not here, and
that was that was That was an interesting time. But
that happy National Boss's Day. That person I would never
wish happy bosses day. We did wish that person good riddance.
I don't know what they're doing now, but probably yeah,
never mind, all right, it's a National Boss's Day. Best
boss you ever had? Somebody texted me, who's the best
(10:49):
boss you ever had? Well, it depends on the job
of the industry. And I'm in such a weird world
of radio and medium that bosses for me are kind
of different. I do a lot of very independent and
I can't tell you the worst boss ever had, and
he was dispatched to the sideline and I was told
not to talk to him anymore. Eventually, so and I didn't.
(11:12):
I talked to someone else who wasn't my boss, and
they made it my boss. So that's a whole different story.
But worst boss you've ever had, I can tell you
that story. Uh it's I gotta be careful though all
the stuff I say, you know so, but the worst
the best boss I ever had. I had a boss
one time that had two bosses, one boss and the
boss over that person. They ran off to each other
and like disappeared from the radio station for weeks and
(11:34):
nobody to where they're at. We knew where they're at.
They hit e loped ran off. Problem is they we're
both married. And that was a big drama. That was
So that was I don't say the worst boss. They
were all right, but it was a strange situation, folk show,
very strange. Finally corporate started to call, it's not this,
not of this company, different company. Corporate starts calling, canay
anybody's seen the bosses around there? No, we've not seen
(11:56):
the thing. We know nothing, We know nothing. Yeah, we
knew something, but we weren't telling we were going to
keep a secret. It's radio a lot of good secrets here,
all right, What else do I have about for today?
I told you where Kamala is going to be at,
and I told you where where Donald's going to be at.
So the less than three weeks from the campaign. Oh,
(12:17):
I filled out my ballot last night. I got home
from a long day. I was doing some fundraising for
my charity work, and I filled up my ballot. And
I'll give you the next segment. I'll kind of go
over how I filled it out. I did it differently
than I thought I would. I looked at all the
voters guides, and I talked about so many things, and
I and the candidates I voted for who I thought
(12:38):
I was going to vote for. Voted for Donald J.
And I'm in the eighth so I voted for Gabe Evans,
I voted for Dan Woog. I'm in that state Sentate district,
Barb Kirkmeyer. I mean, I voted for the people I've expected.
But when I got to the propositions and amendments, I
really just kind of had a kind of a say,
a revelation, if you will, kind of an aha, moment,
(12:58):
and I changed how I was going to vote. And
it wasn't that my values didn't change, as Kamala would say.
I just kind of went my perspective and said, no,
I'm going to have to mark no on this, even
though I originally was going to say, Okay, let me
give you that thought process in the next segment, because
you're going to fill your ballot out. I filled it out,
and then I immediately I got back in the car.
I'd gotten home. I didn't even walk the dog. I mean,
(13:19):
I just filled out the ballot because I knew it
was going to take a bit, and it wasn't as
long as I thought, but I had I didn't have.
I knew what the admittments were, so I kind of
knew where I was going. If you haven't pre studied,
it's going to be a long ballot to read through
in all the fine print. And by the way, it's
very small. I don't know if it's well. If there's
so many things on the ballot, I couldn't read the thing,
I'm like, okay, I need either readers glasses or we
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need to print this thing bigger. They need that. They
remember the giant print Bibles you can get. I needed
a giant print ballot. We need to be able to
request that one. It was small, but I filled it
out last night and then I didn't even walk the dog.
I said out the door, went to the dropbox, dropped
it off. So I should be getting a text message
front of the next twenty four to forty hours that
my ballot has been tracked and I am there. I'll
go through my ballot thought process in the next segment.
(14:03):
I'm not arrogant enough to think I need to give
you everything I voted. I just got to tell you
how I thought it through, and then you think it through.
You're all capable individuals. You want to know specifically how
I voted on what, I'll tell you, but I'm not
going to. I just kind of tell you what was
running through my brain. And it was just kind of
a different idea that I hit yesterday afternoon that some
of the things I was going to vote yes on,
I'm not going to vote yes on, not because I
(14:24):
don't think they're good ideas. I just I'll get to
that process here in just a moment. Also, one more
quick thing. The next couple of days a week or so,
on occasion, I'm going to mention and I just warn
you here, I'm going to mention my charity work. And
I know some of you know my charity work. And
you guys have always been so supportive the golf tournament,
everything we do. You've helped us stock. I think this
(14:45):
audience has put a couple of classrooms of chairs together,
or desk and chairs just by a donation during the show.
You've helped us overcome our feeding when the inflation price
went up, cost of food doubled, you helped us provide
a couple of months of food for kids. And so
you're always so generous. And yesterday I sent out an
email and it was an email detailing our Christmas drive.
And Christmas is that great opportunity to where you know,
(15:07):
we teach the kids the Bible. We are it's a
legacy Christian academy. The kids pray, they know that. But
Christmas is a great opportunity to kind of just celebrate
and you celebrate the of course, in the Christian tradition
we celebrate the birth of Jesus and so, but it's
a holiday. We're not afraid of the Santa Claus and
all that. The kids like the wear Santa Claus has
they understand all that, But we teach them and then
(15:29):
we teach them by gifts, and we teach them about
the greatest gift that ever came, the Gift of salvations.
It was the incarnation all started and started the gift
of salvation. And I mean we try to teach them
that this is a great way to illustrate it. And
then we try to give practical gifts. Now we're not
giving out toys or yo yo's and things like that.
I mean, I guess we could find a yoyo, they
might enjoy it. But we do practical things. Every year
(15:51):
at Christmas time, we throw a big party catered food,
I mean big food, and it's a feast. And that
party costs about fifteen bucks a kid. Honestly, we bring
SODA's in. I mean, we really throw a hoop off
for a couple of hundred kids. It's great. And then
we give every child a new pair of shoes, because
shoes are a commodity there. They don't have shoes, and
(16:11):
we've got kids, I've had kids we found that start
our school. We think they have shoes, and we look
at the bottom, the bottom of their shoes are totally
worn out. They're barefoot on the ground, but they sow
treasure that they used to have shoes. They're still wearing
the top of the shoe. That is. That is Joe
Biden said, no joke. We had a kid that he
had a pair of crocs on. I don't know where
he got a pair of crocks, probably threw a humanitarian
(16:31):
drop somewhere, had a pair of crocs. We're like, oh,
that's great, he's got crocs. We don't know. And then
we looked at the the bottom of the crocks were
totally gone, but he had the top on. So we
buy the kids new shoes because they wear them out.
They you know, they they wear these dang shoes out
because that's the only pair of shoes they have. If
they have shoes, it is the pair of shoes we
give them. And a pair of shoes cost us thirty bucks,
and we're gonna buy for about two hundred and fifty
(16:53):
kids at least a pair of shoes. Do the math there.
And then there's some other things I put out there
last night that we're going to be once we get
the shoes done. That's our top priority. There's some other
things we're going to try to provide for the Christmas season.
And again, these are some of the poorest kids in
Africa and these have been neglected for years. These kids
lived with families, lived under literally they lived under piles
(17:14):
of banana leaves until we got out there. I mean,
it was pretty crazy for what we saw there. And
it's come a long ways, baby, and we're making progress.
And one of the things that is on our list,
and every day, every couple of days, I'm going to
mention an item and say, hey, can we stock this
item today. It's just a cash donation. I'll give you
an instance. Eighty dollars something we don't think about for Christmas,
(17:35):
but for them it's very special. We have young women
that we send a school over there, middle school, high school,
young women, college aids. We're sending a girl in nursing
school right now through the generosity of a sponsorship feminine
hygiene products that's a luxury and eighty dollars. Never thought
i'd be the visitor onnew Eighty dollars is a year supply,
(17:57):
if you will, of products for a young lady to
have so that when that time comes every month she
has what she needs to continue life as normal, and
that's eighty bucks. And once we buy the shoes, we
start looking to the other needs and it could be that.
So anyway, this morning, I want to focus on the
shoes this hour. If you'd like to help a kid
have a pair of shoes for Christmas, you go want
(18:17):
to highlight something else, just put for Christmas. Go to
riverspromise dot org. Thirty dollars buys a pair of shoes
for a kid. If for some reason something else I mentioned,
just say for this product and I'll make sure we
do that. But I want to focus on shoes thirty dollars.
Some of you could do one hundred pair of shoes.
You can do three thousand bucks right now. Some of
you could do ten at three hundred bucks, some of
you could do one, and some of you can't do anything.
(18:38):
But maybe you can say a little word of prayer.
That would be good too. All right, riverspromise dot Org.
I'm going to do this over the next couple of days.
It's a Christmas project. We're not buying toys. These kids
don't know what a toy is. They're happy if I
give them a sheet of stickers, but a pair of
shoes is an amazing thing and that's the base line
every year at our Christmas parties. So thirty bucks, if
you'd like to help us in the show, I'm going
(18:59):
to mention it throughout the of the morning. Thank you
for understanding. It's a passion in my heart, and I
hope you'll help you riverspromise dot com, Rivers promise dot
or just the greatest need. And then you'll have a
place to put a comment. And if it comes in
near the show, I know it's Christmas, but you can
end the comments put for Christmas gift or four shoes.
We'll figure it out. Thirty bucks starts with a pair
of shoes. If you got the email from me yesterday,
(19:22):
you know the other items that are on there. I'll
mention some in the next several days and weeks, but
thirty dollars for a pair of shoes, that's what I'm
going to focus on this morning. Would you help us?
I appreciate you, and I think the Lord does too.
I'll be back. Laky six hundred and ca col All right,
(20:23):
you can listen to me anywhere. A matter of fact,
people do. It's amazing hear from people really all over
the globe. You're listening on that iHeartRadio app. And so
I got people the vacation. They're overseas or stationed overseas,
and they're tired of well they need their Jimmy fix,
and so they listened to me. And I appreciate you
for doing that. Good to have you here for your
(20:44):
streaming me live this morning. Good morning from Colorado. If
you're not live and you're listening on the podcast I
call the Leaky Effect, welcome back into the show and
hello from the past. It's the sixteenth day of October,
Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty four. All right, I
don't live in Larrimer County, but I do sometimes well,
I oftentimes follow news in Larimer County. One of the
things that's always kerfuffled me is, first of all, as
(21:06):
huge as Larimer County, as there's only three commissioners. There's
three districts and three commissioners, which to me seems really
small for such a big district. And unfortunately you get
some boneheads or jackwagons, or as Tim Walls called them,
knuckleheads that ended up serving on the board of commissioners.
And yesterday, I want you to go back to my podcast.
Listen to an interview that I had with with a
(21:27):
local business owner and you will find it at Jimmy
Lakey dot com. Tiffany Webber was on the program and
Tiffany Weber talked about an interaction she had with the
Border Commissioners because of her winery and a balloon that
was up for twelve minutes and the Border Commissioners basically
shut her down for six months out of business. Twenty
(21:49):
six people laid off out of business. Jody Shaddick McNally
from District three on the Border Commissioners actually said we
ought to go into the I want to go into
the back co and tear up your vineyards. I mean,
this is uh, this is a tyrannical type board of
commissioners with that kind of attitude, all because of a balloon.
They said, you're you're not supposed to have balloons and
supposed to have a private party. Well, I didn't put
(22:11):
the balloon up. So somebody came in with had a
big seating and they put up the balloon to say hey,
we're in here. But nevertheless, uh, the Lahoman County Bord
Commissioner shut him down. Jody Shatick McNally running for reelection
on your ballot in Larimer County. Wants to be seated
back on that border commissioners. I want to welcome into
the program. Been asked. He's a he's a candidate in
District three and he's taking on Jody Shaddick McNally for
(22:35):
the Larimer County boarder commissions.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Ben walking to the show, sir, how are you?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Thank you? Jimmy doing well? My name is Ben Oustey.
Will just say, stay with Osty. It's difficult Swiss name
to pronounce around here.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Astey. I apologize for that. Been that up. I know
your signs. I've seen those around and it's Uncle Benny, says,
give us the background of Uncle Benny. Your background at
the end of the Larimer County area.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That's a nickname I was given in college, Uncle Benny.
And so we opened a business called Uncle Benny's Building Supply.
It was quaint. People loved it, grassroots, they embraced it.
I ran in twenty twenty Jimmy with as Ben Ostey.
People said, who in the heck is this? Asked this
Ben Astay or Ostey couldn't pronounce, And then later we
found we should have run with Uncle Benny on the ballot,
(23:21):
and that is what we did this time around.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So Uncle Benny is what people see. I'm not a
Larimer County guy, so Uncle I'm a Weld County guy.
So it actually says Uncle Benny, so they know whats you.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
That is correct. We have name branding big time here
in the county. I got nearly one hundred thousand votes.
In fact, they still have that garnered record there for
any elected official Lumber County back in twenty twenty. Not
bad for Riddeneck businessman.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Ben Austy, my guest, he's running for Larimer County commissioners
and Commissioner's seat in District three. I'm sure you're familiar
with the story that I've told you about Jody Shaddick
McNally and the winery in for College that got shut down.
Give me your thoughts on that story. It was a
crazy story. I want people to go listen to Tiffany's
story yesterday on my website Jimmy Linky dot com my
(24:07):
interview with her. Give me your thoughts on six months
because of a balloon. Doesn't seem like they're very business friendly,
local business friendly when it comes to the current border
commissioners and District three.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
One of many stories. Jimmy, I can't even I don't
have enough fingers and toasts tell you how many. This
is one I started to hear about, actually from Tiffany
four years ago, when I was just running actually in
twenty twenty for your Lenmo County Commissioner three. So I'm
very familiar with it. And that is, as I say,
she's brave. There's so many other business owners that do
(24:41):
not want to. They feel there could be retaliation, and
they have experience retaliation for speaking up and telling their stories.
Backlash if you will. Again, because I'm out here in
the business sector, people feel comfortable telling me these stories
two years, one month. I try to listen, and seriously,
it's grievous. The hardest thing, probably for me, has been
(25:02):
for the last four years, since twenty twenty. For three years,
people said, are you going to run again? Was a question.
Then the last year it became you've got to run again,
it was a demand. So you can tell the seriousness
that's surfacing from the people's voices here in the county.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Can you help me understand what's going on with the
current representative from District three? I mean, it seems like
the Laermer County Boarder commissioners will want to be pro business,
have an environment to where businesses are surviving, especially when
places like wineries and restaurants really struggled because of lockdowns
during COVID, many went out of business. It seems like
they would be kind of partnering with them. What's the deal?
(25:38):
Why the evidently victory all towards some businesses and you're
hearing more stories than just Tiffany Webers.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Yeah, it's what once was six months to a year
on pulling getting a permit approved, whether it be residential
or commercial. It's become two and three year testimonies for
many many I mean up to date real time. I
still hear this. I mean some one of them took
the cake the other day. It was four to five years.
They've been working on it in Larimer County. Now it's
(26:06):
a bigger development, so they're more complicated to design infrastructure.
But understanding that, you see it becoming more difficult. I
don't know what to end to what end this is, Jimmy, honestly,
because we the brick and mortar montop businesses are the
backbone of this county. In any county, any municipality, to
drive them off and to hear testimonies of people go
into Borlder County, honest to God is my witness, and
(26:27):
other counties around us for years has been very alarming.
That even started three years ago.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Jimmy Wow, the voice of Ben Ousta. He's running in
District three, Uncle Benny as you might know him, for
Larimer County Border Commissioners. Can you help me understand why
Larimer County other county commissioner's board seem to be much larger.
This is only three people. Should that change? I think
in my estimation it should, because you get one or
two people that are tyrannical, like maybe you have here,
(26:54):
and suddenly the whole county shut down and all the
citizens pay the price because there's not really enough people
to build some kind of a large consensus. Is it
too small?
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I don't know that that's the way to go. I
have been talking with one of my mentors, who happens
to be Daryl Clawson, who was a commissioner for Larmer
County years ago, ninety two years old. A man of wisdom.
He's just one of several that are awesome commissioners that
were reasonable, affordable and sustainable through the years. I mean
he actually made a ruin for me twenty eight years ago,
(27:26):
changed an ordinance if you can imagine, so it can
be done, and softened some codes that were unreasonable even then.
So he said, and this is one of his estimations
is he served as a commissioner and on a board
for a city municipality, and he said, the more people
you have involved on a decision making, the more difficult
it can become. Now that's one opinion. There's a lot
(27:47):
of folks that like to be like, we have two
hundred I'm estimating two hundred and eighty thousand Larimer County
now on our census because the last was two fifty
nine and twenty twenty. So we have to wait obviously
obviously till two thirty to make it afenc but indicators
are saying we must have about two hundred and eighty thousand.
So I think that at the moment it's going to
cost more money. Right now, our budget I don't think
(28:09):
would allow another off several offices because people are proposing
three and two three center three that are the full
time commissioners and two at large. So the budget has
to be looked at. I mean, I'm not saying no
to that idea, but I am really looking into it.
It's come around for several cycles going through the years.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, well, well, well all we do know, whether you
know that's a kind of a big term, long term picture.
Is that just the audio that I've seen at the
County Commissioner Board of Jody Shaddick just talking such trash
to a local business owner and literally wanting to her opinion,
she got blocked by other people on the commission She
wanted to knock them out of business and just say
you can't do business anymore, you're done, revoke their license altogether.
(28:51):
I mean, that's tyrannical type stuff. And you just wonder
how an elected official feels that they have that much authority,
that much power, that much gravitas, that much ego. There's
just something that in my opinion, not yours. I'm sure
maybe it is, but in my opinion, there's just something
wrong with that type of an elected official continue to
go back when they really are not looking for a solution.
(29:12):
They want to drive a person out of business. That's
why you're running ben Ostay. If somebody wants to learn
more about your campaign in District three for the Larrama
County Boarder commissioners. Where do they go?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I'd love it if they'd go to vote the number
four ASTE dot com. Stay with Oste. Remember, stay with Oste.
And from the people's mounds to my ears to this
radio station, we have got to become more reasonable, sustainable
and affordable or we're not gonna make it. We need
this income from these businesses, not driving them out. And
(29:44):
I have to tell you, Jimmy, lastly, many Democrat business
owners have been telling you, I don't care what party
this guy's from. I want some more common sense. All
the accolades that I have, we don't have time to
list out for this job. I can do it, no problem.
I'm looking forward to it. Are two words I want
and sense in this bocc ye.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
All right, one more time, give that website real quick,
real quick.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
It is vote the number four A S T E
dot com. We need for health. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Vote for the number four A s T E dot com.
That's osty, but it's spelled ASTI. If you get my drift,
there a s t E pronounced osty. Uncle Benny, appreciate
you coming on, Ben, and good luck to you. Thank
I'll talk to you soon, I hope. And ladies and gentlemen,
I gotta take a break. It's lady on the radio,
six hundred kc.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
O L.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
All right, welcome back to the program. Lakey is my name,
Jimmy Lakey. To be precise, let me play this audio.
There's a video I did the interview with Tiffany Weber yesterday.
I want you to go back and listen to it.
My friends, if you're in Laramer County, this is why
to these interviews. I want you to not ignore what's
down below on the ballot. Jody Shattock, I mean, I
don't know anything about her, but I've just watched this
(31:28):
video and hear this story. This woman's a a beast
of some sorts. Just something's wrong that you'd go after
a business for a balloon. Tiffany tells her story, and
I'll post this video up as well, and you do
your own research. But Ben oste great. He's heard so
many complaints, he said, of other business owners, even cross
party lines, going this is out of control with a
(31:50):
lack of common sense here in Jody Shatto's part of
that on the Laramer County Board Commissioners. Let me play
this audio. This is just a snippet of a piece
of her talking about this woman a balloon at the
Blending's winery. And so Jody Shattock is so angry about
that damn balloon. The damn balloon, Jody, it's pissing you off,
isn't it. The damn balloon nicks her off? And so
(32:11):
she wants to shut the business down forever. Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Still, two three months wouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Two to three months would not be support.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
That sort of suspension. I'm actually was thinking about revocation.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I was thinking about revocation. Jody Shaddick McNally on the
Larmer County Border Commissioners. Here's the story. They provided ring
doorbell footage and say, hey, that that balloon was not
put up by us, put up by people saying, hey,
we have the graduation event in here, party in here,
but it's open to the public. Here's our receipts. We
weren't shut down for a private and we're not allowed
to do that. And Jody Shattuck Mwmalley says two to
(32:43):
three months is too short. Two to three months is
too short. She's the woman at the grocery store saying
you're not following the damn arrows. This is the person
at the grocery store. Six feet of a separation, please,
six feet of separation. I don't know much about this
Jody's Shaddock, but just that clip right there is enough
for me to say, Uh, if you live in Larimer
County and you get devoted the District three border commissioners,
(33:05):
I would highly suggest you look a different direction. I mean,
let me put up this of this YouTube video. It's
very well done. Somebody sent it to me and I
want you to see it. And again I had to
pronounce his name, ben Ousti. I didn't know how to
pronounce his name. I ain't got no dog in the fight. Uh.
But again, you got to got to go to Larimber County,
(33:26):
take back your government and get some common sense. So,
by the way, your Larimer County border commissioners was wrong,
very wrong when it came to the COVID handling, and
they should still be held accountable for that. So anyway,
you've got a Yeah, Cafalis is about the most reasonable
I've ever seen. O there, he's been on the program before,
he's he's usually accessible. I've always appreciated John Cafalis, but
again as a whole. Uh, these three people, especially this Shattuck,
(33:49):
well shotuck, that's scary stuff. Let me, I'll put this
video up and go listen to the interview Tiffany Webber,
and I'll get the Ben Ousti interview. And again I
don't I don't know Ben Austin from we could have
eaten at the Applebees yesterday, I won't even know it.
I'm not personal friends at all, but I do pay
attention to who you have to representing you, and it's
some scary stuff out there there in District three of
(34:09):
the Lamber County Boarder commissioners. I want to remind you
I mentioned this last hour. Excuse me. I'm going to
mention this every once in a while. The next couple
of days, I'm going to be highlighting an item that
we're trying to bride for Christmas to my charity organization,
and shoes are the main thing that we provide all
the kids, So hundreds of pairs of shoes, a couple
of hundred at least, we could do more if we
get more shoes or thirty dollars a piece to buy
kid of pair of shoes and again these are kids
(34:30):
would not have shoes otherwise. When I first went to
this area where we're building Legacy Christian Academy in Rwanda,
there were kids with no shoes. Hell, there were kids
with no clothes. We literally had nickedness going on. I
mean we had kids in rags and leaves. It was
very primitive. And I'll put up some before and after photos.
But the shoes are a big deal. And the kids
love shoes so much, and if they wear their shoes out,
(34:51):
they won't throw them out. They'll still wear the top
of their shoes even though their foot's hanging out through
the bottom because they just want to have shoes. And
every year we buy everybody pairs of shoes as many
as we can. They're thirty bucks. And for the next
couple of days, I'm going to push stuff, just different
items that we're going to provide. Shoes are the backbone
of our Christmas drive. It's thirty bucks and I just
(35:11):
looked at so far. I just threw it out there
one time and I don't see anything in the inbox.
I'd like to though, somebody you could do a one
thousand bucks, so somebody could do one hundred pair of
shoes today, somebody could do one. I don't know where
you're out on the spectrum, but go to riverspromise dot org.
It's Christmas drive for the kids and just the greatest need.
(35:32):
And then put Christmas shoes on there. Well know what
it's for. Riverspromise dot com, riverspromise dot org. All right,
everybody stand by Steve laugh you we've been next. Now
we're six hundred kcol
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